Added four SAS drives to NX3100 - RAID Question

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• Adding 3rd drive but not RAID?

  I have a TS200V with 2 x 250 GB drives in a RAID configuration. Can I add a separate 500 GB drive, but NOT add it to the controiller raid itself? As a standalone player? I'm new to RAID not too sure if this is possible. Or the question of whether the TS200V has same slots for additional disks.

  Thank you.

  John

  Hello

  Server does support RAID 0/1 only.

  There are instead of using the 3rd HARD drive inside.

  Means to refer to the knowledge base and in this topic

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/ThinkServer-towers-knowledge/TS200v-RAID-5-controller-card/Ta-p/271321

• PERC H330 and Raid 5, try adding another SATA drive raid 5 array

  Hi all

  I have one server PowerEdge T330 with 8 slots of disc and have currently 3 SATA drives running a raid 5 configuration.  I have a virtual disk configured for Raid (must).

  The operating system recognizes the disk and is able to use the resources...

  My desire is to add another hard drive to the table (hard disks of the same size, same brand, etc.) with 4 disks without losing any data.

  I looked in the settings of the iDrac and the only adjustment was to add the new disk as a global hot spare or a hot spare dedicated to the virtual drive.

  I also looked in the BIOS and do not see a way to add the new drive.

  Does anyone know how to increase capacity?  I can blow the virtual drive if necessary and start over without problem.  I intend to gradually accomplish this Act until adding 8 disks. (5 times).

  Help!

  Hello.

  Management controllers RAID and tables is not made in the BIOS iDRAC or systems. For the management of the RAID (virtual disks) arrays, you have OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA). If not installed, see the link: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=TK61C once installed, go to-> Storage->-> H330 PERC controllers-> virtual disk--> sub tasks available-> select reconfigure and run-> then check a box to add the fourth disk on the next page. Follow the prompts and allows you to extend your range of RAID 5.

• You can mix SAS and SATA drives in a RAID 1 PowerEdge T110 II configuration

  Hello

  I have a RAID 1 configuration and one of the two drives in the array has failed.  I've removed and replaced by another drive hoping the Dell Perc adapter H200 would rebuild the mirror automatically, but it does not.  In Server Admin OpenManage virtual disk displays as degraded.  The issue I think may be the replacement drive is SATA where the original was SAS.

  Is there a way you can make the adapter accepts a SATA drive or is it simply not supported?

  SIV

  Hello.

  Dell controllers, including the H200 are not supported mixing SAS, SATA or SSD in the same table. They may, however, each separately constitute a virtual disk on the same controller. Consider replacing the disk failing another identical or higher capacity SAS drive.

• Adding a replacement disk in a RAID 5 (PERC S300) replacement hot

  I scoured through comments and think I have the solution almost, but would confirm or correct if possible.

  Have a PowerEdge R310, four 500 GB drives, RAID 5, with one of these defined as Global Hot Spare drives.  One of the spare wheel failed, hot (003) disks has done its job and kept during the RAID.

  Put in the replacement drive in and can see it is Ready on physical disks via manage open.  More I noticed that he as a Non Raid virtual drive virtual drives.

  I thought it was to automatically rebuild the RAID after the disc has been inserted, but it didn't.  I started to reconfigure it on existing RAID, hoping to choose the new disk and start the reconstruction, but he doesn't see the new drive as a physical drive.  I guess that's because the system has assigned the new drive as a new virtual disk.

  I remove the new virtual disk, and then run the reconfigure statement the existing virtual disk of RAID 5 to add the new drive?

  I hope this makes sense and I appreciate any help!  Right now my server is in place and very well, but these 500 GB drives are reliable - I lost an another late last year and replaced him.

  SBlades

  Thanks for the quick response.  If I already have a spare drive (the one who took over after the failure of the other disk), it will allow me to do the new hot spare?

  This player is no longer a "rescue." It is now a member of the array fully operational. You don't have a spare drive. It is also possible to have two hot-spare set.

  SBlades

  I run the Reconfiguration on the RAID 5 in Open Manager after the non - RAID VD is removed?

  No, Reconfigure will EXPAND a virtual disk, usually by adding a physical drive. So if you have a 3-drive RAID 5, you insert a new disk and run the statement reconfigures, you might reconfigure your 3-drive RAID 5 to 4 drive RAID 5 (is worth a drive to storage space by adding to your table/server) or a 4-drive RAID 6 (essentially a RAID 5 with a disc of relief, but instead of relief being a non-member member - only standyby player - help is integrated with the table as a full member. the RAID array results in an additional parity so that two disks can fail while maintaining the availability of the matrix, rather than wait for a player to fail before starting the reconstruction to become a member of the table; RAID 6 is usually best when using very large capacity disks).

• How to add additional sas drive to an existing IBM midsize V3700 and do like being active in all hosts with vcenter server devices

  Hello team,

  In our infra we have 8 node of the flex IBM x 240 and 1 IBM midsize V3700 host as storage device. In this 19 storage hard drives busy with 600 GB 10 k 6 GB SAS drive and 5 locations are still, that storage is divided into 2 for test and Production. Now we expect for resizing the activity so that we plan to add more 5 hdd storage, can someone guide me how do it properly without any problem.  If I add the HARD drive storage how to initialize and map to the existng storage. If someone has done this before please guide me to continue.

  What you have to do is create a new disk (mdisk) group and add to your existing (mdiskgrp), to make task record the following:

  1. click on internal disks and then bind o pools:

  

  2. click on configure storage:

  

  3. on the storage configuration wizard, you can select use recommended Configuration or select a Configuration different, but the most important is to select your existing disk group RAID level:

  

  4. then select the Expand existing Pool:

  

  Once the capacity of the new disk has been added to your existing pool, you can create new volumes to expand your existing volumes (LUNS UAT or logic of PRODUCTION unit number).

  Let me know if you need additional assistance.

• Installation of SAS drives in Precision 690

  Hello

  I have a bunch of 10 k Fibre Channel SAS drives and I'm trying to install in a Precision 690. They seem to have connectors with 40 pins at the rear, a model example is the Seagate ST3146707FC.

  Is it possible to do? If If you could point me in the right direction in terms of what parts I might need. According to the manual, it can support 4 SAS and SATA drives, so I would use a SATA and SAS together potentially 4 drives.

  Thank you.

  Hi Hierchon,

  It is not possible to directly connect the Fibre Channel interface 690 PWS.

  These CF disks a SCA2 aka SCA40 connector and SAS uses a 32 as SATA connector.

  In order to use the FC disks, you need some type of housing CF or SAN which would then connect to the PC via a FC HBA.

  The SAS cable is necessary to attach a SAS drive to the PWS690 is identical to the SATA to the motherboard, but in training, data and power connectors are gathered.

  The PWS690 has two controllers. The ports labeled SATA go to the regular Intel SATA controller and take only the SATA drives. The ports labeled HD_0, etc, go to the SAS5 integrated RAID controller which will have SAS or SATA.

  I hope this helps others with these issues since this question is 9 months old. :-(

  -rocky

• What is the largest hard drive or the RAID supported by El Capitan and Yosemite?

  What is the largest hard drive or the RAID supported by El Capitan and Yosemite?  Also, WHERE can I find this specification?  Drobo claims that 16 TB is the largest external RAID supported and I do not.

  FYI............ 2 UPDATES since I posted this question:

  "1. Drobo has updated their FIRMWARE to allow now to 'beyond' 64 power to RAID".  Thus, their original 16 TB limit has now been replaced by their new limit of 64 to.  Also note that when you use a Drobo, Apple Mac OS does correctly shows space 'Drive' and the 'free space', if the Drobo 16TB exceeds the size; but the Application DashBoard of Drobo displays the correct numbers.  For example, my Drobo 5 d contains 5, 8 TB disks, for a total size beyond 40 to RAID (theoretically, since most of us should know, now, that the ACTUAL SIZE IS SLIGHTLY SMALLER than THE THEORETICAL SIZE).  AVAILABLE FOR USE ACTUAL SIZE IS ONLY 28.9 TB.  Thus, 40-28, 9 = 11.1 TB gets used in place for the PROTECTION of RAID beyond and the difference between REAL SPACE and SPACE THEORY.  It IS NORMAL because any RAID 5 device always uses about 1 size of hard drive for its Protection.  So, knowing this, the DeskTop icon showing 28.9 TB disk space and free space as everything that is not yet used.  However, instead, the Mac OS shows 70,37 TB disk space and free space like 68,37 TB, which are both incorrect.  Although I'd love it if Mac OS has been magically increase my disk space, in fact, these two numbers are false.  Drobo knows this, and Apple has not, in my discussions with both.  So I hope, between the two companies, that this problem can be corrected.

  2. after many hours on the phone with Apple Support, through no less than 6 people including 2 senior advisers, NONE OF THEM COULD ANSWER MY QUESTION ON CE WHO IS MAXIMUM ALLOWED HARD DRIVE or RAID SPACE AUTHORIZED BY Yosemite and El Capitan.  For me, THIS IMPORTANT FACT SHOULD SIMPLY BE LISTED IN THE OS SPECIFICATION TECHNIQUE, it's quick and easy to read on the Support Site.  But Apple is the new bureaucracy, they are, I don't see what is happening any time soon.  So, be aware that, for now, HE IS No. LIMIT ON SIZE, as an Apple adviser said; but could not confirm in writing; and, IT IS AN INCORRECT DISPLAY SIZE AND FREE SPACE, if your drive is greater than an unknown 16 + TB in size.  Note that I have 3 other RAIDs that are properly in place showing that 9 TB, TB 12 and 18 to size; but I do not know how the SIZE IS IMPORTANT to ensure that the operating system display it correctly, except for my Drobo TB 40.  So, the bottom line, somewhere between to 18 and 40 to is where he goes wrong, in its display of sizes.

• PowerEdge R630 - adding a SATA drive

  Hello

  We have a new Poweredge R630, who arrived with 4 x 300 GB SAS disks in RAID 5 turns. All is well with them.

  However, we would also use a SATA (SSD) (we have an exceptional SV300S3 extreme of Kingston). We insert it with a basket of spare and set it up as a new virtual disk, it seems fine. The only doubt I have is that if we can leave it without an AIRLOCK inserter in front of her. More precisely:

  (1) the leap card would increase its performance? Or the bottleneck would be the SATA: Rev 3.0 (6 Gb/s) interface of the SSD even?

  (2) only the fact that the SSD is attached like SATA hampers, somehow, 4 SAS drives running?

  (3) if we wanted to add an inserter, which part number should we buy?

  Just to be complete: the performance now seems acceptable farily (but I have no clear reference in mind). In a reading test sequential, it works a bit worse than the readers of spinning (~ 360 MB/s against ~ 595 MB/s), but on a random read/write test, it surpasses clearly them (~ 10 x are PAHO / s).

  Hello

  No, one leap is not necessary, does not affect the performance and will not affect the performance of SAS drives only.

  I do not show a disk for the R630 support option that includes an inserter or a separately listed inserter.

  Thank you

• The upgrade of the SATA 1 TB to 2 TB SAS drive sink r.620 Server

  Hello

  I have a r.620 with a H710 Mini Raid Perc.  I currently have 3 1 than TB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration and need more disk space.  Unfortunately, I have the bottom of basket, which only supports up to 4 drives.

  I tried to replace the disks with 3 2 disks SATA of TB, but blocked watch RAID controller.  I put the 2 the original 1 the 2 TB drives to see what shows OMSA and 3 disks in.

  OMSA shows not supported and the size of the disk is showing 232 GB instead of 2 TB of suggestions?

  Thanks for any help!

  ID	0:1:2
  Status	Non-critical
  Name	Physical disk 0:1:2
  State	Not supported
  Power state	Leader
  Bus protocol	SAS
  Media	HARD DRIVE
  Review	K002
  T10 IP Capable	NO.
  Certified	NO.
  Capacity	232,38 GB
  Used RAID disk space	0.00 GB
  RAID disk space	232,38 GB
  Hot spare	NO.
  Vendor ID	SEAGATE
  Product ID	ST2000NX0263
  Serial number.	S460194C
  Negotiated speed	6,00 Gbps
  Speed measure	Not available
  Sector size	512 B
  SAS address	5000C50088BFFF09

  I don't know if you already said that, or if you thought about it. The reason why these commands do not work in your system is because they are readers of formatted 4Kn.

  P710 series controllers don't support of 4 Kn.

  There is a work around, but get this info from Dell is going to be almost impossible. (They want buy you your discs at home).

  Corey

• Installation of new drives in a raid configuration

  I use a mr10i and two drives RAID 1 raid controller.

  I'll add an additionall two disks to the raid level 1.

  What I need to know is: can I add the second set without having to completely erase the first two and set up a new configuration of raid.

  as far as you add these two new drives additional independent RAID 1, you're fine - don't worry.

• DV7-6c95dx: ADDING 2nd HARD DRIVE WE DV7

  ADDING 2ND HARD DRIVE - IT DOES NOT APPEAR UNDER MY COMPUTER - I DON'T KNOW IF SA FORMATTING OR NOT - CAN GET SOME DIRECTIONS - THANK YOU

  How did you add it? Where's the hardware mounting hard disk? In any State of cause, assuming that you have installed a hard drive was bought, it would be empty and needs be initialized (mounted) and formatted. To find computer or this PC in the right click menu... Choose manage, disk management and you will see a Visual representation of the hard drives. It can automatically prompts you to initialize the disk. Once do you that and format it in ntfs and assign a drive letter and the name of the volume, it will appear in the computer as a lettered drive.

  http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000588.htm

  If it's 'the Answer' please click on 'Accept as Solution' to help others find it.

• Where can I get a driver for the raid on my motherboard controller intel?, promise PDC20319 S150 TX4

  Where can I get a driver for the raid on my motherboard controller intel?   I need for Windows 7.

  Hello

  I suggest you for the link and check the drivers available for the device is only for the Windows XP operating system.

  http://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&keyword=%22promise+PDC20319+S150+TX4%22

  I suggest you contact the manufacturer for additional assistance:

  http://www.Intel.com/p/en_US/support?IID=HDR+support

• Hello. I installed the trial versions of 2014 CC Photoshop and Lightroom 5.6 (ie the plan of photography) on a desktop computer that I've added a new drive in Windows 7. Everything works well, BUT it's an old computer, and I think he could pack up unexpe

  Hello. I installed the trial versions of 2014 CC Photoshop and Lightroom 5.6 (ie the plan of photography) on a desktop computer that I've added a new drive in Windows 7. Everything works fine BUT it's an old computer and I think he could pack up unexpectedly. These things are happening. I want to sign up for the plan of photography but I also a Windows Vista laptop, and it's old too so I can put apps on a new office and a new laptop computer, after you have already installed on my desktop. That is why three activations. Am I allowed to do? See you soon. Paul

  You can't have three activations. It is simply not possible technically. If and when the time comes, just disable you / disconnect is on one of the old systems and install it on the new. If the system goes belly up, you contact support to reset your account. No need to make it more complicated than that and resist it.

  Mylenium

• No light on SAS drive

  We have a 3.0.2 host in a remote office, where one user said that there is no light on one of the disks.  It is one of the two 72GO SAS drives which are in the opposite direction, which ESX is installed.  The server is a DL585 G2.  On the homepage of Mgmt. systems of the server, it shows that all 8 disks in the box being fine - all the "indicator of problem" and "flag down" statistics are nil.

  ESX wouldn't be given evolving and therefore written to each drive?  Is it possible that the light itself to burn? (don't think I have ever seen)

  Personally, if it was me and I got maintaince contract for this server, I would have the disc replaced without worrying if it's just a light out or not. As others have said sometimes the plastic band that brings light to the front is slightly misaligned, or the led could have come loose, but at the end of the disc, but technically, the drive does not 100% if the stupid little light is not on.

  Just my 2 cents

  • Kyle